[Peace-discuss] Instant Runoff Voting in Urbana 2007/08?

[Karen Medina]

Hi James M,

IRV and RCV are great. I was not aware there was a group working for
RCV. I am assuming you are new to town?

The Green Party and AWARE and several groups would probably be
interested in what you have to say, especially if you think there is a
chance for either.
Both established parties are dead-set against it.
My personal opinion is that Esther Patt is an amazing person and a
great political mind, but long-term the political arc of both
established parties is bending the same wrong way.

Carl E and Karen A -- possible AWARE on the Air guest ?

-karen m

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Dianna Visek via Peace-discuss
<peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> I worked with Durl on this back then.
>
> The mainstream Democrats were extremely opposed to IRV and told folks all
> kinds of terrible things about what would happen.  There were people at the
> township meeting who had absolutely no understanding about what they were
> voting for, but had been told they had to be there.  One older African
> American  lady told me that IRV would take away our civil rights.  And we
> were only asking to put an advisory referendum on the ballot.   Even if it
> passed, the City wouldn't have to actually do anything.
>
> Esther Patt was upfront about their opposition.  She said, "We worked for 20
> years to take over the city.  Why would we risk changing things now?"

> On Friday, June 29, 2018, 1:13:36 PM CDT, James M. via Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> I ran across this article in the publici talking about IRV in Urbana:
>
> (seems to be down at the moment):
> http://publici.ucimc.org/a-brief-history-of-instant-runoff-voting-in-urbana-municipal-elections/
>
> Web Archive Link:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20160809204842/http://publici.ucimc.org/a-brief-history-of-instant-runoff-voting-in-urbana-municipal-elections/
>
>
>
> Doing research, it looks like Durl Kruse was spearheading this. I had found
> an email address for him, but it no longer seems to work, I get a bounce
> back when I mail to it. Does anyone have any current email address for Durl?
>
> Or also, does anyone have more information about what happened with IRV in
> Urbana or how to pick the torch back up? (the article seems to say that it
> kinda petered out in 2008) The folks over at Illinois Ranked Choice Voting
> (which is mainly comprised of volunteers in CU area) is looking to re-ignite
> the conversation and potentially work towards getting Urbana to switch.
>
> ---
> James M